top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-03-07

Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control

2 years ago

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00648-5

2 years ago

Introducing command And commandfor In HTML

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/command-and-commandfor

2 years ago

Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI

https://techstartups.com/2025/03/07/microsoft-is-plotting-a-future-without-openai/

2 years ago

Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-naturally-molecule-rivals-ozempic-weight.html

2 years ago

Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague

https://theins.press/en/inv/279034

2 years ago

Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00735

2 years ago

Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291922

2 years ago

3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/so-powerful-its-kind-of-ridiculous

2 years ago

Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment

https://github.com/directvt/vtm

2 years ago

Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/07/athena-spacecraft-mission-dead

2 years ago

Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere

https://pola.rs/posts/polars-cloud-what-we-are-building/

2 years ago

Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YIR39KeJMk

2 years ago

Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6yg204pvmo

2 years ago

Bye, Prime

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/03/06/Canceled-Prime

2 years ago

Optimistic Locking in B-Trees

https://cedardb.com/blog/optimistic_btrees/

2 years ago

How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? (2023)

https://www.freaktakes.com/p/how-did-places-like-bell-labs-know

2 years ago

Bring Back Shortwave

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/bring-back-shortwave/

2 years ago

Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology

https://engineering.fb.com/2025/01/21/production-engineering/strobelight-a-profiling-service-built-on-open-source-technology/

2 years ago

Matters Computational (2010) [pdf]

https://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtbook.pdf

2 years ago